Originally Posted by
Belloc
Why raid with your guild when you can join another group that's more progressed than yours?
That's why. I mean, this is another example of obvious problems that people are just completely ignoring. You ask how it would kill organized raiding guilds and the answer is pretty much plain to see: As I said, why raid with your 1-10/14 normal mode guild when you could join that cross-realm 14/14 PuG? Bam, now YOUR guild has to pug someone and, being less progressed, they're going to have a harder time recruiting players. Hell, maybe 2-3 of your players join a pug that week and the only people interested in your less progressed group are players that you wouldn't want in your group to begin with. So, you take them anyway... and then, the next week, another 1-2 extra players don't show. Now you've got a group of 5 guildies and 5 pugs and you clear half the content that you normally would. The next week, you cancel all raids because, fuck it, you're losing progression.
If you don't believe that would happen, then ... I really don't know what to tell you. I could point out people in every raiding guild that I've been in that would gladly jump ship as soon as a better opportunity presented itself and I guarantee that pretty much everyone here could probably point out a few of those people from their guilds as well.